Malkangiri: A hardcore Maoist was shot dead during an exchange of fire with the security forces In Kutur forest area near Malkangiri border under Bijapur district in Chhattisgarh on Sunday. The top Maoist commander has been identified as Ranu. The Mao commander was functioning as the action team commander of the area committee. The top […]
Bhubaneswar: Four Maoists have been killed in an encounter with police at Bhandarangi Sarki forest on Kalahandi-Kandhamal border on Wednesday, informed officials. While some Red Rebels managed to give the security personnel a slip, an SOG personnel has reportedly sustained injuries in the operation. Kalahandi SP B Gangadhar informed that on the basis of an […]
Bhubaneswar: Close on the heels of Odisha government’s announcement to make traffic rules stricter from March 1 in a bid to reduce the number of accidents, as many as eight people died today in separate road accidents across several districts of Odisha. In Sambalpur, four persons were killed while six others were injured after a […]
Srinagar: Four army soldiers, a BSF constable and five civilians were killed in avalanches in Kupwara and Ganderbal districts in Jammu & Kashmir. An army party was hit by an avalanche in the Machhil sector close to the Line of Control (LoC) on Monday night in which five army jawans were trapped under the snow. […]
New Delhi: Three people died in Odisha and West Bengal after the ‘very severe’ cyclonic storm Bulbul weakened into a ‘severe’ one on Saturday evening, wreaking havoc in the coastal districts of both the states and causing damage to thousands of houses, uprooting trees and affecting hundreds of phone towers, the Union Ministry of Home […]
Keonjhar/Baripada/Rourkela: As many as six persons were killed in separate road accidents in Keonjhar, Mayurbhanj and Sundergarh districts. In Keonjhar, a man, his 5-year-old daughter and 3-year-old son were killed after the motorcycle they were travelling on was hit by a car near Ganesh Bhawan under Joda Police limits of the district. The driver of […]
Hyderabad: Two trainee pilots were killed when a trainer aircraft crashed in Vikarabad district near Hyderabad on Sunday, police said. The accident occurred in the afternoon when aircraft crashed during a training sortie in the cotton fields at Sultanpur village, about 100 km from Hyderabad. Both trainee pilots including a woman were killed. One of […]
Bhubaneswar: Two days post the tragic Nepal bus accident, mortal remains of the two Odia pilgrims who died in the mishap late Monday night, reached Odisha on Thursday. A pall of gloom descended on their villages today where their family members were awaiting their repatriation. The bodies of the two deceased- Charan Biswal (54) and […]
Chicago: Two people were killed and another critically injured in a shooting on a street near downtown Chicago, local media reported, citing police. According to preliminary information from Chicago police, the shooting happened around 9:53 a.m. local time in the 3400 block of West Ohio Street on Wednesday, Xinhua news agency reported. Two people were […]
Bengaluru: Two people were feared killed and 50 others were trapped when a multi-storey commercial building under construction collapsed in Dharwad in Karnataka on Tuesday, police said. Five persons extricated from the debris told rescuers that at least two people had been killed in the tragedy that occurred close to 4 p.m. and that some […]
Mumbai: At least six persons were killed and another 32 injured, including some critically, when a portion of a overhead pedestrian bridge outside the Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus came crashing down on Thursday. The victims included three women and a man. Two of the women were identified as Apoorva Prabhu, 35, and Ranjana Tambe, 40, […]
Malkangiri: A youth was stabbed to death over an alleged extramarital affair at MPV-38 village in Malkangiri district late on Wednesday night. The deceased has been identified as Niranjan Sardar of MPV-4 village. According to sources, Sardar was returning home after watching ‘jatra’ at Bhejingigua village last night when a man identified as Samir Bairagi […]
Jharsuguda: A man allegedly stoned his wife to death at Bhatalama village under Lakhanpur police limits in Jharsuguda district late on Saturday night. The deceased has been identified as Sunita, wife of Ashok Dandasena. According to sources, Ashok and Sunita had gone to Jharsuguda for some work yesterday. It is suspected that the couple entered […]
Kendrapara: One person was killed while seven others went missing after a boat capsized in Mahanadi river mouth near Nipania in Kendrapara today evening. According to sources, the boat was reportedly ferrying picnickers who were returning from Hukitola Lighthouse to Kujang area of Paradip. As per latest reports, Fire tenders have reached the spot and […]
Mexico City: Seven children died in a pre-dawn fire on Friday in Iztapalapa, a populous town within Mexico City’s greater metropolitan area. The fire broke out just before 5 a.m. local time (11:00 GMT) at a cardboard-and-sheet metal shack tucked between cement homes in the neighbourhood of Buenavista, Xinhua reported. The victims were children aged […]